Case Study: Adastria Co., Ltd. achieves rapid, proactive protection of thousands of devices with Akamai Technologies' Enterprise Threat Protector

Adastria Quickly and Proactively Secures Its Workforce with Enterprise Threat Protector

Adastria is a Tokyo-based casual fashion retailer with about 1,400 stores and more than 30 brands whose Digitalization Promotion Department is driving a company-wide digital transformation. The business faced a major security challenge: thousands of in-store PCs, tablets and handhelds had direct-to-internet breakouts and high staff turnover, making phishing and web-based attacks a real risk that endpoint antivirus and training alone couldn’t adequately address.

Adastria deployed Akamai Enterprise Threat Protector after a short proof of concept, routing DNS to the cloud gateway and moving from alerting to blocking — protecting devices across all stores in under 20 minutes. The solution immediately blocked malicious sites, phishing and data exfiltration, reduced the need for extensive employee security training, quickly flagged compromised devices to limit lateral movement, and is being extended to support future cloud- and IoT-driven initiatives.

Adastria Co., Ltd.

Kousei Murano

Senior Manager , Digitalization Promotion Department